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Behind the Masks, the Politics of Carnival INTRODUCTION Behind the Masks, The Politics of Carnival Aurélie Godet Université de Paris, France 1. Baron Joseph X. Pontalba, “The ladies, on one side, found pleasure in knotting my bed sheets together, in throwing water letter to his wife, October 15, 1796, at me … while I, on the other, smudged their bed clothes with lamp-black, so that they became WPA trans., typescript, Louisiana State University Library, Baton smeared all over with it; I inserted an apothecary drug, one with a subtle scent, into their pillows; I Rouge, 358. squirted water at them with a syringe; I dropped bits of wood down their chimneys at night, made holes in the chamber pots, etc.” 2. Donald Cosentino, “‘My Heart Don’t Stop’: Haiti, the Carnival Baron Joseph X. Pontalba, describing a party at Louis Barthélémy de Macarty’s plantation house State,” in Carnaval!, ed. Barbara 1 Mauldin (Seattle: University of during the 1796 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans Washington Press/Santa Fe: Museum of International Folk Art, 2004), 285. 3. Anne Schuchat, “Public Health “In this new age of pandemics and holy wars, it felt good to be there, bottoming out, looking at Response to the Initiation and the world from upside-down.” Spread of Pandemic COVID-19 in the United States, February Donald Cosentino, about Haitian Carnival in the wake of the AIDS epidemic2 24–April 21, 2020,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, US Department of Health and Human Services, May 8, 2020, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/vol- A Note on Festivity and the Current Pandemic umes/69/wr/mm6918e2.htm. Almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic, as cities across the globe are either easing out 4. English churchmen, for instance, connected the devas- of mandated lockdowns or plunging back into them, it may seem strange (if not inappropriate) tating Lisbon earthquake of 1755 to direct people’s attention to festivities, as we have done in this journal since 2019. It is hard to with the donning of masks and ignore, however, that public celebrations—of Lunar New Year in China, of carnival in Venice, Rio, costumes at open-air masked and New Orleans, et cetera—as well as private ones—weddings, funerals, birthdays—accelerated entertainments in London and 3 various “hot Countries (notorious the spread of COVID-19 across jurisdictional boundaries in the first months of 2020. Much for Lewdness).” For an interest- like natural disasters used to be blamed on masquerades in eighteenth-century Europe,4 our ing reflection on the hyperbolic, propensity to engage in public displays of joy has accordingly become a target of many a political disruptive power English author- speech or media column.5 Why are some people unable to resist crowds despite the pandemic? ities saw in eighteenth-century 6 masquerades, see Terry Castle, some ask, ignoring decades of findings in evolutionary anthropology and psychology. Journal of Festive Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 2020, 1—31. https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2020.2.1.89 1 Will the pandemic transform the way we celebrate in the future? How long will our fear of collective enjoyment last, and with what implications for social cohesion? How will festivals that heavily rely on tourism respond to the changes in traveling practices likely to occur in a post–COVID-19 world? It is too early to say, although it never hurts to consider the long-term Masquerade and Civilization: The effects of the pandemic on social behavior.7 One thing is certain: the laws of proxemics are being Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Cen- challenged all over the world. As geographer Richard Campanella recently noted, even cities tury Culture and Fiction (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, renowned for their social propinquity, like New Orleans, have internalized the awkward dynamics 1986). of social distancing: 5. Since January, in fact, the Crowded restaurants, packed bars, second-line parades, festivals, the Mardi Gras revelry …—not to mention blame has been successively put on festival-goers, Black Lives the hugging and backslapping of this gesticulating society—all now have us recoiling and uncharacteristically Matter protesters, statue-protec- standoffish. It took a few days of browbeating from authorities, but over the course of four days, from March 14 tors, beach-goers, clubbers, non- through March 17, street gatherings dispersed, Bourbon Street emptied, bars shuttered, and restaurants scaled mask wearers, and most recently, down services (behold: Galatoire’s to go). We’ve become hyperaware of human geography at its most literal students, testifying to an overall level—body space—and, darkly, we’re coming to see that approaching stranger more as a threat than a friend sense of powerlessness among not yet met.8 elected officials and average citizens. With cancellations (or postponements) mounting, 2020 and 2021 may well become known 6. Rebecca Renner, “Why Some as the years without festivals.9 However, as the essays gathered here suggest, the celebratory People Can’t Resist Crowds Despite the Pandemic,” National impulse itself is unlikely to disappear. The history of festivity has, after all, been marked by Geographic, June 24, 2020, episodes of repression and suppression followed by episodes of resurgence and renewal. Like https://www.nationalgeographic. the virus that threatens it right now, the festive “gene” can mutate and thus escape extinction.10 com/science/2020/06/why-peo- As we write, communities around the world are finding new ways of celebrating together ple-cannot-resist-crowds-socializ- 11 ing-despite-the-coronavirus-pan- without large physical gatherings, creating fresh forms of festive social interactions. In this demic-cvd/. issue’s inaugural piece, ethnographer Emmanuelle Lallement investigates some of the “home- 7. For a variety of prospective made” substitutes developed in France during the March 16–May 11 shelter-in-place mandate statements, see the livestream and reflects upon their possible continuation in the post–COVID-19 world. Her anthropology virtual event “Festivals, Events of lockdown ends on a note of caution: “Someday [festivity] will put an end to the long social & COVID19: Navigating a Global emptiness left by months of social distancing.… Festivity, [however], will remain the social marker Pandemic,” organized by Sophie Mamattah, David McGillivray, and it used to be.” Festivity, in other words, will continue to divide as much as it brings together. As Gayle McPherson in May 2020, such, it will continue to be politicized. This incursion into the ambiguities of festivity leads us to https://www.pscp.tv/w/1lDxLgl- the main topic of our journal’s second issue: the politics of carnival. raRbJm. See also the upcoming Salzburg Global Seminar “What The Politics of Carnival Future for Festivals?”, scheduled for October 24–28, 2020, https:// www.salzburgglobal.org/mul- Most of the essays that make up our thematic section derive from talks given at an international ti-year-series/culture/pageId/ses- symposium entitled “The Politics of Carnival” hosted by Université de Paris (formerly Paris sion-646-1.html and the regular Diderot University) in February 2015. Organized by historian Maria Laura Reali and myself, postings on COVID-19 by mem- bers of the Festival Academy, a the conference gave twenty-two European, North American, Latin American, and Caribbean global community of 737 festival scholars the opportunity to discuss carnival in true interdisciplinary fashion and to consider the managers from more than 100 whole historical and geographical span of the phenomenon.12 The papers given by the speakers countries, https://www.thefesti- explored a wide range of questions, including: What exactly is carnival? Who celebrates (or valacademy.eu/en/covid-19/. gets to celebrate) it? Is carnival inherently transformative, as its association with protest would 8. Richard Campanella, “COVID suggest, or do the rules that govern it make it fundamentally conservative? More simply, to what Geography: Notes from New extent is carnival the mirror image of everyday order? What kind of “community” does it create? Orleans,” 64 Parishes, March 19, And how does the politics of carnival manifest itself aesthetically? Journal of Festive Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 2020, 1—31. https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2020.2.1.89 2 Unsurprisingly, the stimulating exchanges that occurred did not end in any sweeping, conclusive manner. A consensus nonetheless emerged around three propositions. 1. Carnival vs. the Carnivalesque 2020, https://64parishes.org/ covid-geography-notes-from- First, carnival—as an annual festival that precedes the fasting period of Lent in Roman Catholic new-orleans. countries and involves processions, music, dancing, and the use of masquerade13—should be 9. For an incomplete but long distinguished from the larger category of the carnivalesque, which has been used to characterize list of festivals affected by the all sorts of collective activities that use symbolic inversion for expressive purposes and in COVID-19 pandemic, see https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ which the negation of the established order provides a temporary opening for alternative, hybrid events_affected_by_the_COVID- identifications to flourish. 19_pandemic. Both phenomena exist on a historical continuum, naturally. Although the origins of carnival are 10. The comparison between festivity and disease is an old one. commonly traced to twelfth-century Rome, the medieval pre-Lenten celebration likely descended It was especially popular among from “carnivalesque” (i.e., boisterous) fertility rituals and seasonal events associated with ancient eighteenth-century satirists and Rome.14 Similarly, the spirit of medieval carnival—characterized by an excess consumption of moralists. See Castle, Masquer- meat and alcohol, an embrace of “otherness” through mask or costume, dance, and music ade and Civilization. (rough or otherwise)—has come to pervade festivities such as Christmas and New Year’s Eve 11. For changes in the way in Protestant countries like the United Kingdom, South Africa, and the United States.
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